BREAKING NEWS:Harley Davidson closing a plant due to declining sales.

[EasTexRIII]

I’ll ride wtf I want to....... says my grandson:

 

[Sensfan]

I’ll ride wtf I want to....... says my grandson:

Looks like he is currently riding a full sesame street diaper........better call grandma

 

[Ishrub]

Don't they start young in the Good Ol' USA? I'm surprised he hasn't got this one - Mother's influence I suppose!

Frio Canyon Motorcycle Stop

 

[WyldCFH]

Don't they start young in the Good Ol' USA? I'm surprised he hasn't got this one - Mother's influence I suppose!

Frio Canyon Motorcycle Stop

I have that one, got it on the sisters 2016 get together.

 

[Paul Bryant]

Going back to the vid about the valve seats.
Many years ago I was so sick of People/Business's not doing their job properly that I just ended up doing everything myself.
Obviously a lot of stuff I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but this is how I learnt.

Then I decided I would replace the valve seats in the Trident Engine.
By this stage I had already built, that is made/machined all of the components to take this 750cc Engine up to 1000cc's.

So valve seats !
One thing I learnt from doing this job .... I will never do this again !
Where the "average" Engineering interference fit is .001" per 1 inch Diameter, Valve seats, especially the Exhaust Seat is a lot more than that, I forget the numbers but .008" comes to mind (this on a seat about 1¾" O.D.)
So I chill the seat, warm the head, have everything set up nicely with drifts, guides etc .........
I took a day off work after that! Too much stress doing that Job ! (remember that was the first time I did it)
I did eventually sort it, but as I said, never again.

 

[EasTexRIII]

Don't they start young in the Good Ol' USA? I'm surprised he hasn't got this one - Mother's influence I suppose!

Frio Canyon Motorcycle Stop

That one didn’t come in his size

 

[Gregger]

This has been going around since 2004 still waiting., will be hard for Triumph to justify a new Rocket as the existing one is not a big seller.

But I like it.....isn't that enough to justify a new one?????

 

[tgarney]

I went to the Harley dealer today and looked at the new softail line of bikes. Having been a engineer for many years I can tell you HD saved a huge amount of production costs by building one frame shared by nine separate bikes. My conservative estimate is $1,500 on each bike produced. Now did they pass that savings along to their customers? Nope. All these bikes run $20,000, except the sport glide which was $16,000. Harley's problem is obvious, their CEO thinks he is another Steve Jobs and has adopted the Apple marketing philosophy of selling premium products to a limited, upscale clientele (RUBs). There is only one small problem with that, Harley is not Apple, and a motorcycle is not an iPhone. (check out the reviews of Harley's new 2018 model reveal if you doubt that.) The reason Indian is selling so well was their appeal to the regular working man and woman. Harley has turned their back on these folks, the people who made Harley what it is today. I told the sales guy that there was no way I could afford $20,000 for a motorcycle. He shrugged and "yeah" like it didn't matter to him. Its sad to have a company be that arrogant. So Long Harley, and good riddance.

 

[ChrisACT]

Harley isn't selling motorcycles. They're selling the idea of freedom. The bike is just an accessory.

 

[RKTNMYPKT]

I’ll ride wtf I want to....... says my grandson:

Cute little feller